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Operating Systems Solaris Mail is not sent by cron daemon Post 302220652 by incredible on Friday 1st of August 2008 10:31:29 AM
Old 08-01-2008
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Solaris does NOT use the MAILTO variable. You can use the mail command to send E-mail output of cron jobs. For example, to mail the output of a script to a user, you can format the cron command similarly to the following (keeping everything on a single line in your crontab).

* * * * * /path-to/yourscript | /bin/mail someone@mydomain.com

or write a to run your job and send an email, see the example in my below comment.

===========================================

SUPERVISOR="root, you@somewhere"
....
mail ${SUPERVISOR} < $LOGFILE


make your crontable looks like:

5 * * * * /path-to/yourscript >/dev/null 2>&1

ave a look at this nice cron FAQ:
Unix FAQ - Cron
 

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CRON(8) 						      System Manager's Manual							   CRON(8)

NAME
cron - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron) SYNOPSIS
cron DESCRIPTION
Cron should be started from /etc/rc or /etc/rc.local. It will return immediately, so you don't need to start it with '&'. Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d/ directory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)). Cron then wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, checking each command to see if it should be run in the current minute. When execut- ing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO environment variable in the crontab, if such exists). Additionally, cron checks each minute to see if its spool directory's modtime (or the modtime on /etc/crontab) has changed, and if it has, cron will then examine the modtime on all crontabs and reload those which have changed. Thus cron need not be restarted whenever a crontab file is modified. Note that the Crontab(1) command updates the modtime of the spool directory whenever it changes a crontab. SEE ALSO
crontab(1), crontab(5) AUTHOR
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com> 4th Berkeley Distribution 20 December 1993 CRON(8)
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